Hi I found a little something on Surviving Steam Cranes of North America Crane is setting in an Unknown Scrapyard, the crane was built by Industrial works in 1924 for the Los Angeles & Salt Lake RR. C/N 4602, weight 160 tons original Number #010004 to UP changed Number to # 910004.

I live in Portland, if someone can give me a bit more info I can go look at it and take a photo if possible.

Lincoln Penn

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Posted: Mon Dec 04, 2017 5:32 pm

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Richard Glueck wrote:

Isn't there a similar crane and Vanderbilt tender in Ogden?

Belongs to the Ogden Union Station Museum.

BigBoy 4023

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Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2017 1:18 am

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Thanks for the replies.

I wonder how much they are trying to get for the crane and tender considering the brasses have been stolen?

Robert

PMC

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Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2017 9:30 pm

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It is still there, I tracked it down with the help of an RyPN regular, I have photos from today from about 30 feet away and ten feet up because below that is brush, but I don't have a hosting page so I have no way to post them here. The owner says it was rebuilt by UP in the 1970s, then sold to him/them, then borrowed by UP once a bit later. He said it had the brasses stolen in the 1980s, and the cab appliances after that. It has rail access still, one of the G&W lines in the area he thought. He knows about railfans and said he had seen it mentioned online on a forum like this one some time ago.

PMC

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Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2017 10:47 pm

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Here it is, I figured it out. These are the best angles I could get, it is on a grade about ten feet higher than where I took the photos. (The originals are better than the photobucket versions I posted, you can see the rivets).

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Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2017 11:23 pm

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PMC, Thanks for the updated pictures. It's a shame the dang brasses and cab controls were stripped out.

I wonder what type of trucks are under the crane? Might be possible to swap the trucks under both the tender and crane for modern freight car trucks to move the crane by rail.

I wonder how many sets of 6 wheel 3 axle freight car trucks are still around?

Robert

PMC

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Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2017 11:28 pm

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The owner said that if I came back next week he could take me to it, he just didn't have time today, but didn't mind if I shot it from the other side of two fences. Depending on how much time I have I may go. But from what he says the brush is so close it might be hard to see.

cp4449

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Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2017 5:39 pm

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I have been looking at this one for years. Those are blackberry bushes around it, watch out for thorns. Asked Dick Samuels about getting it for his operation, and the answer was "Iam aware of this relic but don't believe the BNSF or UP would move it on live rails. " With that said, I suspect that it would have to be trucked out. I wish it could be saved.

You said it was for sale, how much?

PMC

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Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2017 6:14 pm

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It wasn't me who said it was for sale, I have no idea what his plans are for it, that he has maintained it mostly intact for 40 years is a bit of a miracle and I really don't want to start him thinking. Plus I think it is rude to walk up to someone cold and ask if something not advertised is for sale unless you are ready to buy it and have a price (and the cash) to offer him.

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